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That’s Lura, the Lisbon-born Cape Verdean singer, who is sensational. Great music, a great voice and a great entertainer. (Her website, in Portuguese, with music on every page.) Violinist Guillaume Singer and Vais Dias, with his combination steel-string guitar, classical guitar and cavaquinho, two of the members of the tight, tight five-piece band that backed [...]
That’s Ivan Handzhiev on accordion, part of Kabile, a great Bulgarian folk group that played in Bellingham, Washington last night. Kabile features a quintet of exceptional musicians: singer Donka Koleva, Dzheno Andreev on gaida (a type of bagpipe), Nikolay Doktorov on kaval (a type of flute) and Angel Krastev, one of the best percussionists I’ve [...]
The redesign of the blog continues, but given that I’m heading into the meat of the teaching week, things may still be a bit of a mess for a while. Tasks include CSS tweaking and updating the blogroll, which I have neglected for far too long.
Okay, crowd, show me some wisdom. I’m looking for a reasonably-priced hotel near Heathrow because I have to do an overnight between flights. Any recommendations from all the worldly travellers who chance upon this blog? Thanks.
Just finished sending a message to Alexandre Gamela on Twitter, checked my mail and found a related message from Alexandre, which was a comment left at my blog. And, no, the point of this is not that media bloggers sit around and “talk” to each other all day.
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